Screen Rant » superman: doomsday http://screenrant.com TV and Movie News, Reviews & Trailers Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:01:43 +0000 en hourly 1 Superman: Doomsday DVD Review http://screenrant.com/superman-doomsday-dvd-review-kofi-2963/ http://screenrant.com/superman-doomsday-dvd-review-kofi-2963/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:28:51 +0000 Kofi Outlaw http://screenrant.com/?p=2963 supermandoomsday1Superman: Doomsday is NOT a Superman cartoon for the kiddies. On the contrary, this straight-to-DVD feature is pretty adult, a fact quickly established in the first ten minutes when Doomsday, the unstoppable devastator from the early 90′s “Death Of Superman” story-arc, brutally murders a team of Lexcorp researchers who unwittingly unearth him, while Lex Luthor himself puts a pistol to the head of a female assistant and blows her brains out.

Even Superman’s character gets bumped up from PG to PG-13 status in this flick. His relationship with Lois gets a modern, adult rendering, best illustrated in an early scene where the pair of them are alone in the Fortress of Solitude, swapping innuendo about the best way to do the horizontal tango without inflicting too much bodily harm to Lois. (What fanboy hasn’t pondered ...

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